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- The marsh horsetail is very toxic, and it is important not to confuse it with the field horsetail (Equisetum arvense) which is used as a herbal remedy.
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Marsh horsetail is found on lake and stream shores, marshes, seeps and pools. It contains two chemicals that have been shown to be poisonous to horses: thiaminase, which breaks down vitamin B1, and palustrine, an alkaloid.
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Equisetum palustre is poisonous to mammals, most often reported as potentially fatal to horses, as it contains alkaloids palustrine and palustridiene, which destroy vitamin B 1. According to Wink, Equisetum palustre also contains thiaminase enzymes .
Marsh Horsetail (Equisetum palustre): As its name suggests, this Horsetail prefers damper conditions, and the spore cone tends to be spotted and quite distinct. It is most often found in marshes and wet meadows.
Description. Stems 10 to 60 cm tall and 1 to 3 mm wide erect or decumbent, green, slightly rough, with few (only 4 to 8), rounded vertical ridges and prominent unbranched branches in irregular whorls the sheaths loose, grey green with erect black white edged, one ribbed teeth.
Marsh horsetail is a poisonous perennial pteridophyte with a thin smooth green stalk. The 20 to 40 cm tall marsh horsetail often grows irregular and sparse branches topped by yellow-brown spore cones. The marsh horsetail grows in semi-fertile and nutrient-rich marshes.
No – it isn’t necessary to get rid of horsetail. When growing among trees, shrubs, or vigorous herbaceous perennials, horsetail won’t cause any significant competition and its presence in parts of the garden increases biodiversity and provides shelter and food for several invertebrates.
All horsetails are poisonous to livestock; cattle, sheep and ironically even horses! Animals are less likely to eat growing stems that are in dense patches if they can be avoided, but plants that have been cut and end up in fodder, can be toxic, so need to be avoided within any management process.
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